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University researchers don’t know how to commercialize their discoveries I realise I am going to be kindling for the next HN bonfire for saying this... but...
by frossie 17y ago
University researchers don’t know how to commercialize their discoveries
I realise I am going to be kindling for the next HN bonfire for saying this... but...
... some of us don't want to commercialize our discoveries, and in fact we are in academia partly because we find the commercial world so unattractive.
Now please stop throwing things at me and go back to your start-ups.
- sachinag 17y agoThat's fine - no one has a problem with that. The problem is that some people do, and it's impossible to get the tech out. The vast majority of R1 universities have moronic - utterly moronic - tech transfer offices. I can speak to this better than most as someone who did VC and had to deal with researches fighting against moronic tech transfer officers that insisted on onerous terms, insanely high royalty rates, and copious paperwork to get tech out.